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View of beach and groumls before the World's Fair — 
OcDetal view on grouods including Fisheries, 
(lovernmect. Liberal Arts and Electricity Build- 
ings, and dome of Administration Building, witi 
lagoon, Woo<1ed Island, Japanese cottages auc 
I'romenade in the foreground— Geueral view of 
ruins iiimiediately after the fire, from the south, 
showing the Obelisk in front, the lake on the 
right, the- niins of Machinery Hall on the left, 
with the Government Building and Art Palace in 
the distance. Frontispiece 

Sites before the Fair; (i) German Building — (2) 
North end of Wooded Island — (3) Old Canal 
north of Fisheries Building — (4) Northeast from 
Government Building — (5) East from Govern- 
ment Building — i(t] Beach near Liberal Arts, 6 

Greeting, 7 

Burning of the Peristyle, with western view of the 
Court of Honor and Administration Building, 8 

Group of statuary entitled " Fire Uncontrolled," the 

last to fall from Administration Building, 9 

Butiiiugof Administration and Mines Buildings, with 
eastern view of Court of Honor and Peristyle, to 

Burning of Electricity and Mines Buildings, with 

ruins of each above and below, 12 

Embarkation of Columbus from Spain — Viking ship 
on its voyage of discovery — Pilgrims landing at 
Plymouth Rock, 14 

Chicago with the World's Fair behind her welcoming 
the commerce of the world and facing the fairer 
future before her, 15 

The great fire in Chicago in !8;i, with ruins of the 
Grand Pacific Hotel above and views of the South 
8od Noi-th Side mind below, 16 

Lake Front view of Chicago in 1S94, with scene in 
Lincoln Park above and Garfield Park below. iS 

The old ■■ Liberty Dell." exhibited at the Fair. 19 



View of heart of Chicago with slum scciic from 
center of the city above, and u picture from the 
great railroad strike below. 

Statuary of "War" from the Administration Build- 
ing and sqaad of regulars respuuding to call, 

Cavalry escorting meat train protected by infantry 
from the Chicago Stock Yards during strike. 

From the famous painting entitled "The III Fed." by 
Oreste Das Molin, which attracted great atten- 
tion at the Fair, 

Statue of the Republic standing atone amid the ruins 
of the World's Fair. ... 

The Peristyle bearing the crowning mott*^ of the 
Fair: " Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth 
Shall Make Vou Free." . . 

View of the Midway before the Fair iu center, during 
the Fair above, and of the fuUirt below, , 

Woman as the type of purity and trpth opposed to 
bi ute force and violence of the past. . 

"The .\pparition to the Shepherds," by Plockhorst, 

Angel from the Transportation Building, . 

'■ Christmas Chimes," by Blasbfield, one of the popu- 
lar pictures at the World's Fair, 

The new " Libeiiy Bell," typical of the new era, 

"Gethsemane," by Hoffman— "The First Easter 
Dawn," by Thompson — "The Women at the 
Tomb," by Bouguereau, 

Easter Lilies, emblematic of the Resurrection, 

General views of the ruins, looking toward the lake. 

Lagoon entrance to the Art Palace which remains 
unharmed as a memorial of the Fair, . 

Ruins of Obelisk and Colonnade to lefl above— Ruins 
of Administration Building to right above — Al- 
gerian Theatre, Moorish Palace and Ferris Wheel 
dismantled in center — Southern and eastern 
views of (Machinery Hall ruins below. 

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